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The Chelsea Rare Book Fair returns to the Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road in London on…
More than 70 Bibles and devotional works from from the Estate of Robert Funk will go under the…
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The Princeton University Library has acquired the personal working library of philosopher Jacques Derrida, who died in 2004.
Derrida, an Algerian-born French Jewish philosopher, is considered
one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, writers and critics
in the fields of literary…
Washington, DC—One of the most beloved paintings in the Gallery’s permanent collection, Young Girl Reading (c. 1770) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, shows a young woman in profile, reading the book in her hand. It is now clear that a completely different face was painted underneath, that of an older…
DALLAS—A discarded Frankenstein movie poster—the only 6-foot example from the 1931 Universal horror classic known to
New York—After a two-day, 20-hour marathon auction at Bonhams New York, all 740 lots of the Lauren Bacall Collection sold, totaling $3.64m.
With two bronze sculptures by British artist, Henry Moore, that had sold in November’s Impressionist and Modern auction, the final result for the entire Lauren…
On April 15, 2015 at 10am, Doyle New York will
hold an auction of Rare Books, Maps & Autographs. Highlighting the
sale is an important archive of 25 love letters written by Mexican
artist Frida Kahlo to Jose Bartoli, a Spanish émigré artist whom she met
in New York.
New Haven, Conn—In 1973, the nature of television programming changed with the broadcast of the 12-episode PBS series, An American Family. Detailing the daily life of the Loud Family of Santa Barbara, California, the program was a new type of documentary aimed at examining the contemporary family.…
From Sydney to Tokyo to Cape T own, from Moscow, London and all the major European capitals to New York, Washington, Chicago and the Pacific Northwest of the United States ILA
New York—It was a white glove sale for Day 1 of the Lauren Bacall Collection. Every lot sold as thousands of bidders participated in the first installment of the most anticipated auction of the season, the Lauren Bacall Collection, which took place on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. The saleroom remained…
On
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 10am, Doyle New York will hold an auction
of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps.
A handsome and complete copy of one of the earliest English publications to explain and illustrate the tricks and conjuring previously deemed magic as mere ‘hocus pocus’.
The lengthy title demonstrates how early texts on magic grew out of earlier ‘books of secrets’ and household receipt (i.e.…
